Word: freemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting to keep all freemen free...
...Framed in armor-plated glass, fastened in by invisible glass screws to foil thieves, one of the four original copies of the Magna Charta, basic charter of freemen's rights handed by King John of England to his rebellious barons at Runnymede (A.D. 1215), arrived in Manhattan on the Queen Mary. Delivering the document to Mayor LaGuardia, to be sent to the New York World's Fair grounds, Sir Louis Beale, British commissioner-general to the fair, declared: "It is a treasure beyond price. . . . In this city and in this spot it is in the safest possible hands...
From the first, Stevens saw that the Civil War would be a long war, ridiculed the statesmen who thought the South would be exhausted in six months, urged that it be "laid waste," "depopulated," "planted with a new race of freemen." He saw that slavery was the basic economic and military weapon of the South, might be similarly exploited by the North, insistently urged the freeing of the slaves...
Early U. S. journalism was not always so phlegmatic. When the end of the Revolution came with the downfall of Cornwallis, the editor of the Philadelphia Freemen's Journal or the North American Intelligencer printed the news in type four times normal size. "BE IT REMEMBERED!" thundered the Freemen's Journal, "that on the 17th day of October, 1781 Lieut. Gen. Charles Earl Cornwallis, with above 5,000 British troops, surrendered themselves prisoners of war to His Excellency, Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces of France and America. LAUS...
...summer of 430 B. C. a plague which later historians took for typhus killed 300 Athenian knights, 45,000 Athenian citizens, 10,000 Athenian freemen. Survivors lost fingers, toes, eyesight, memory. Athenian life was completely demoralized...